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syphillis

syphillis is the misspelling of syphilis.

Meaning of syphilis

Noun

syphilis (uncountable)

  1. A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.
    • I saw a film the other day about syphilis. Ugh! It was too awful. I couldn't let a man touch me for a week. Is it true you can get it from kissing?1972, Jay Presson Allen, Cabaret, spoken by Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli)

Questions about syphillis

What is syphillis the misspelling of?
Syphillis is the misspelling of syphilis.

Words near syphillis in the dictionary

  1. syphilizations
  2. syphilize
  3. syphilized
  4. syphilizes
  5. syphilizing
  6. syphillis
  7. syphilo-
  8. syphiloderm
  9. syphiloderms
  10. syphilographer
  11. syphilographers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syphillis (page history and authors); syphilis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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